The key learning area of Human Society and Its Environment or HSIE offers a wide range of study options. HSIE focuses on developing skills in students that allow them to engage with people, places and contemporary issues. This encourages students to explore the diversity of human society and its environment, its origins, current developments, consequences and possibilities for the future. HSIE also provides students with experiences outside of the classroom that support and enhance our programming. At St John’s we provide a culture of inquiry-based learning opportunities for students to “develop as a whole person” based on collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity. Students conduct fieldwork and site studies including visits to the Sydney Jewish Museum and further investigate a variety of our local natural environments as part of their learning. Through analysing information students can make informed decisions about social, cultural, economic, religious, civic and environmental issues that may affect them now or in the future.
Students in Years 7 to 10 study History and Geography as well as having the option to select Commerce in Years 9 and 10 as an elective subject.
Years 7 and 8 (Stage 4)
History: The Ancient World and the Ancient to the Modern World
Geography: Water and the World, Place and Liveability, Landforms and Landscapes, Interconnections
Years 9 and 10 (Stage 5)
History: The Making of the Modern World and The Modern World and Australia
Geography: Sustainable Biomes, Human Wellbeing, Changing Places, Environmental Change and Management
Commerce - Elective
Preliminary and HSC (Stage 6)
In Years 11 and 12 students may elect to study from a wide range of HSIE subjects inclding:
Ancient History Legal Studies
Business Studies History Extension (Year 12 only)
Geography Modern History
Society and Cuture Work Studies
These subjects allow students to develop skills in critical thinking, high-level research and analysis that assists students in preparing for their future.
